The Evolution of the Garden-Myth? Tales from Eden, Boccaccio, and Fellini

Article | Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

The Garden of Eden narrative has been woven, in one form or another in several literary traditions, particularly those of the Western world. The symbolic and socio-cultural significance of the ancient account have continued to inform gender relations, as well as those with the numinous, and/or...

Plurilingualism and Language Contact in Friuli Venezia Giulia: The State of the Research

Article | Contributor(s): Fabiana Fusco

As a crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe, throughout its history Friuli Venezia Giulia has always been a strategic political and economic site and has had several rulers (German patriarchs, Venetians, etc.). Consequently, the language of the ruling classes usually differed from that of...

Burchiello. The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Translation, introduction, and notes by Fabian Alfie and Aileen A. Feng.

Article | Contributor(s): Sherry Roush

Alessandro Giardino, ed. Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples. The Body of Naples

Article | Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

Margherita Costa. The Buffoons, A Ridiculous Comedy. A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Sara E. Díaz and Jessica Goethals.

Article | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettela

Simona Cigliana. Due secoli di fantasmi. Case infestate, tavoli giranti, apparizioni, spiritisti, magnetizzatori e medium

Article | Contributor(s): Mauro Ruggiero

Julius Evola. Teoria e pratica dell’arte d’avanguardia. A c. di Gianfranco De Turris.

Article | Contributor(s): Simona Cigliana

Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

Article | Contributor(s): Nattapol Ruangsri

Silvia Ross, Nicoletta Mandolini e Marina Bettaglio, a cura di. Rappresentare la violenza di genere: sguardi femministi tra critica, attivismo e scrittura

Article | Contributor(s): Stefania Lucamante

Áine O’Healy. Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame

Article | Contributor(s): Daniele Laudadio

Paola Breda and Marino Toppan. Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers: A Century of Italian Immigration to Canada: Immigrants Who Made it and Those Who Perished Trying

Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Brera

Nota della direttrice

Article | Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

Changing the Sex of Cats: Considerations on Tale Type ATU 545, “The Cat as Helper, or, Puss in Boots” between Italy and France

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

When Charles Perrault adapted his French “Puss in Boots” from earlier Italian versions by Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, he made his feline protagonist a male. The cat, however, was grammatically gendered as feminine in the Italian versions, and several critics have...

Sorciers et philosophes : la duplicité des Gitans dans le théâtre italien de la Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Leta

This article examines the depiction of Gypsies in sixteenth-century Italian theatre. By staging Gypsies, dramatists consciously and unconsciously reflected contemporary attitudes and biases towards this itinerant foreign population. They also exposed their own insecurities : while portraying...

Destouches e Goldoni tra nobildonne, arcadi e liberi muratori. Percorsi della riforma del teatro comico italiano del Settecento

Article | Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Fisionomia di una raccolta poetica dimenticata: L’alba ai vetri di Giorgio Bassani (1963)

Article | Contributor(s): Massimo Colella

Mutiny in the House: Domestic Rebellion in Fausta Cialente’s Natalia

Article | Contributor(s): Laura A. Salsini

The cult of domesticity positions women into a state of subservience while reinforcing gendered roles. The ideology was propagated in post-Unification Italy by Catholic doctrine as well as Fascist propaganda and practices that consigned women to the roles of wives and mothers. The physical site...

Post-Unification Gender Dissonances and Ideological Counter-Discourse in Capuana’s Rassegnazione

Article | Contributor(s): Brian Zuccala

The article offers a (re)reading of Capuana’s often neglected novel Rassegnazione (1907), which revolves around the notion of gender-based violence as a central thematic trope. My reading illustrates Capuana’s deployment of the theme of femminicidio as a narrative tool through which to develop a...

Negotiations of a Woman’s Self: Liminal Experiences and Dialogic Reconsiderations in Anna Banti’s Un grido lacerante

Article | Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

This article focuses on the authorial figure in Anna Banti’s last work, Un grido lacerante. An introspective portrait of an aging author whose life and career have been shaped by remorse over a lost vocation, the novel has traditionally been interpreted as an expression of the autobiographical...

Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati. Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

Article | Contributor(s): Elisabetta Carraro